Justified by God

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Romans 8:33-34 — The Reformers were adamant that the church stands or falls on the doctrine of justification. Martin Luther, says Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, was thrilled when the doctrine of justification dawned upon him. Many Christians today, however, may be apathetic towards justification. Even those who happily affirm the truth of justification may do so with less excitement than previous generations of Protestant believers. Given that there is no charge whatsoever the devil can bring against God’s elect and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to the believer, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says justification is the key to everything. In this sermon on Romans 8:33–34 titled “Justified By God,” he gives an exposition of the meaning of justification along with its legal and covenantal context. For Dr. Lloyd-Jones, the Christian’s joy, security, and safety is at stake when considering the doctrine of justification by faith. If one relies on anything else, including experience, then they will certainly be shaken as the devil shows one’s guilt before the law. Hear this grand exposition of the only ground that a believer can truly stand on as they proclaim that it is God who justifies.

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0:00.0	I should like to call your attention this evening to the words found in the eighth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans in verses 33 and 34.
0:12.1	Verses 33 and 34 in the eighth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:19.7	Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
0:25.6	It is God that justifies. Who is He that condemningeth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen
0:37.1	again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
0:42.4	makeeth intercession farce. Now, here we are looking at what I described a few weeks back
0:51.1	as the third of the challenges which the apostle himself puts up
0:58.6	to test the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints that he'd been elaborating
1:06.6	in verses 28, 29, and 30.
1:11.7	I would remind you that this is very typical and characteristic of his method.
1:17.7	The apostle is never content merely with making a statement.
1:21.8	He always gives us a proof.
1:24.5	He was a great pastor as well as a great evangelist. He was anxious to help these Christian people.
1:31.6	And his method of doing that is, as I say, to support and to substantiate what he lays down as a
1:39.3	proposition. And he does so by means of argumentation.
1:45.2	And there are four main challenges
1:49.1	which he puts up here
1:50.9	and with which he deals and refutes and demolishes
1:55.2	and then he ends by making another
1:59.0	of his great and resounding pronouncements.
2:02.9	Now, that is the analysis of this final subsection of Romans 8.
2:10.3	It starts at verse 31, and it goes on to the end of the chapter.
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